Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons

60-year-old John Jacques has appealed his conviction for engaging in sexually graphic online conversations with a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl, saying the police entrapped him using animated emoticons during the chats. From the article: "Jacques claims prosecutors withheld evidence when they failed to use a computer program that would have shown the jury animated emoticons, which he argued was 'clear evidence of enticement.' He doesn't support his argument with a legal basis, the appeals court found. 'We fail to see how viewing the emoticons as animations would have led the jury to conclude that he was the victim of excessive incitement,' the court wrote."

How can I put it?

[Drakkenmensch]

At first I read it and I was like O.o

Then I went :P

And finally I did a :D

Yeah, well...

[pushing-robot]

That's why I always turn emoticons off in chat—you never know what's on the other end. [xkcd.com]

Re:Sweet Stache.

[Anonymous Coward]

13 year olds dude.

I can empathise

[PPH]

Mr Clippy always gave me a boner.

Re:Wait, what?

[interkin3tic]

I'd answer you, but I have Tourettes and suspect you might be under 18.

Re:Yeah, well...

[SuricouRaven]

Those programs that replace text emotions with little symbol are annoying. I'm a furry. We often use our own variations, like :>. How are those of us with beaks supposed to emote when the programs only support human-based faces?